Not to throw a wrench….

[Walter Soyka]

Check out “ripple edits.”

Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
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[Jarrod Fay]

It checks all of the boxes of the NLE I already use… sold.

—> Jarrod

[Michael Gissing]

No mention of a heap of common camera codecs particularly r3d, cDNG, Arri Alexa RAW.

Also does it output via common i/o cards like AJA or Decklink I wonder. Interesting that Sony have made it cross platform.

[Steve Connor]

It supports Decklink

[Michael Gissing]

Thanks Steve. I didn’t see that in the tech specs

[Jim Wiseman]

Very interesting. Looking forward to trying it out. Another hardware manufacturer releasing editing software at a low price. On looking at some reviews, it appears to be fairly simple. Worth checking out.

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1, Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Pro X 10.2.1, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.6, Premiere Pro CS 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K, Blackmagic Teranex, Avid MC, 2013 Mac Pro Hexacore, 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 2-D500, Helios 2 w 2-960GB SSDs: 2012 Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz, 24Gb RAM, GTX-680, 960GB SSD: Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 16GB RAM 250GB SSD, Multiple OWC Thunderbay 4 TB2 and eSATA QX2 RAID 5 HD systems

[Steve Connor]

https://dspcdn.sonycreativesoftware.com/releasenotes/catalystedit_1.0.2_readme_enu.htm

There’s a brief mention in paragraph 3.0

[Jim Wiseman]

Simple seems to be the word here. This is the only hands on review I have found so far. Don’t think FCPX or Premiere have much to worry about, but I will give it a look.

https://australian-videocamera.com/issue/august-2015/article/sony-catalyst-suite-edit

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1, Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Pro X 10.2.1, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1.6, Premiere Pro CS 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K, Blackmagic Teranex, Avid MC, 2013 Mac Pro Hexacore, 1TB SSD, 64GB RAM, 2-D500, Helios 2 w 2-960GB SSDs: 2012 Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz, 24Gb RAM, GTX-680, 960GB SSD: Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 16GB RAM 250GB SSD, Multiple OWC Thunderbay 4 TB2 and eSATA QX2 RAID 5 HD systems

[Oliver Peters]

I’ve been working with the Catalyst products. Catalyst Edit is a lot like a hybrid of Vegas and FCP X. Right now, it’s sort of positioned as a “pre-edit” tool. Also there’s a pretty good tie-in to FCP X. It does not replace Vegas Pro (yet).

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[John Rofrano]

Yea, Catalyst Edit is not a replacement for Vegas Pro yet, but it’s moving in that direction. It has a long way to go because Vegas Pro is very deep but it is based on very old Video for Windows technology and was really in need of a technology upgrade and rewrite. Sony just made an announcement about the next version of Catalyst Edit at IBC:

Sony Upgrades Media Production Software at IBC

It’s good to see they are steadily adding features.

~jr

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